I think it’s verbal meltdown?

GREENLAND is covered in ice

And ICELAND… Is very nice uWu

Is this post travelling through time from 1995

Yeah when you’re playing an instrument in a symphony you have a very, very narrow ability to hear and understand everything that’s going on. Your own instrument is (usually) in your face, you might be in a section with a bunch of the same or similar instruments that is drowning stuff out, everyone is facing away from you and the acoustic echo is weird, etc.

Conductor stands right in the middle of it all and can actually hear everything. A conductor can guide entire sections, or even easily pick out a specific player and get them to be louder, quieter, slow down, etc.

Each player in the symphony is paying attention to that person and they all take cues from them. It’s pretty wild.

I was able to view by opening in desktop mode

HOTCH HOTCH HAAWWWTCH

They’re not the same.

Hiding an unlocked treasure chest in the forest is obscurity. Sure, you might be the only one who knows it’s there at first but eventually someone might come across it.

Having a vault at a bank branch is security - everyone knows there’s a vault there, but you’ll be damned if you’re going to get into it when you’re not authorized.

Good passwords, when implemented correctly, use hashing (one way encryption) to provide security. It’s not obscured, people know you need a password to access the thing (in our example)

Oh.

Ok then yeah, just tell them you don’t make stuff for other people?

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If you can yourself a hobbyist then you likely struggle with communicating the true value of your time for your craft.

People are asking you to make things because they value the product they see that you can make, but it doesn’t sound like you’ve internalized the same measure of value of your work.

All that to say, my advice is that when people give you a request, communicate your response in the following general framework:

-first things first, I’m really backed up and don’t really have time for new commissions HOWEVER

-if you’re willing to wait at least ___________ time then I might be able to fit you in BUT

-I need you to understand that your project will likely be much more expensive than you imagine it to be because it’s custom, and the amount of time that will go into making a custom design that meets my quality standards will be very high.

-i generally commission a piece with an estimated rate of _______ (price per hour - DON’T undersell yourself here. An entire new conversation could go into pricing the value of your time, but that’s a tangent we won’t go into here) and just as a VERY rough estimate I can already guess that your idea would take _______ hours in design time alone, not even considering materials or the time it would take me to create the piece.

-if you’re ok with all that, then maybe we can work together. Why don’t you reach out in _______ amount of weeks/months and we’ll reengage? (Kick the can down the road)

-in the meantime, if you really want your piece before then, I recommend you check out ________ (recommend some good online retailers)

Any of these blanks can be adjusted. If it’s someone you really don’t want to work with, inflate all the timelines. If it’s someone you are close to, give them the lower hourly rate because they’re friends and family or whatever.

But it’s professional, structured, flexible, and sets realistic expectations. Most people will get waved away simply by the price, as you know already.

But most people won’t start out realizing how much time and effort goes into what they’re asking for so you really need to help communicate that so they have a better understanding that a custom knife sheath or whatever isn’t something you can just whip up in an afternoon for the price of a couple pizzas.

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Your reading comprehension is shite.

The commenter that replied to you meant not to disparage an entire group based off of something they can’t choose, which in context was their skin color.

So no, an overwhelming amount of people didn’t choose that, they were born with it. You racist ass dingus.

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How did you do your wall penetration to get it back indoors to whatever switch you used?

Damn dawg, noice

Who cares

This comment chain has me chuckling.

2.2 pounds is a kilo btw so a 12 lb cat isn’t like, GIANT, but it’s pretty dang big.

There’s plenty if you want to go get it from the sun

Bruh you’re in mildly infuriating, you lost?

The expensive part is the outrageous costs of R+D that goes into drug discovery and trials, with the majority ending in failure. Not excusing the awful profiteering that goes into pharmaceuticals also, but the end product being cheap to produce isn’t the only cost that companies incur.

They are yes, as opposed to subjectively on varying levels of personal familiarity. You’d care far more about your spouse or mother dying than a random person in a different country you had no idea existed.

That doesn’t mean that a random person’s life has more intrinsic value than your mother’s, but TO YOU they will have less. Hence, lives are equal in a philosophical sense but pragmatically that’s not how the world works, ever, or we’d be in a constant state of unending grief at the loss of our fellow humans 24/7.